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outer feathers on each fide are marked with a few irregular fpots 

 of brown, alnnoft the whole of their length, on the outer webs. 



The above was prefented to me by the Rev. Dr. PVilgrefs, -of 

 Elthamy who Ihot it in Suffolk. I received, on another occafion, 

 from the fame gentleman, a fecond, which differed in being of a 

 larger fize, and having a greater proportion of brown in the tail. 



Placentia Falcon, G^;/. 5):?/. i. p.76. N" 57. 57^- ^ 



Bay Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 54. N" 34. Yzr.A. ^ PLACENTiA. 



Chocolate F. Jr^. Zool. N° 94. 



T ENGTH twenty-feven inches. Bill black i cere yellow: DEscRmiON. 



the feathers of the head, neck, and breaft, brown, with the 

 edges reddifli white : back and wing coverts brown, edged with 

 pale rufous : the under part of the bird of a fine deep chocolate- 

 brown ; acrofs the breaft nearly white ; between the legs cream- 

 colour : thighs fine tawny yellow, llreaked with chocolate ; the 

 feathers very long : the quills are of a deep brown ; the firft five 

 are, for two-thirds from the bafe, quite white ; the others the 

 fame, but the white marked with irregular bars of brown : the 

 upper tail coverts white, with a large chocolate fuot at therio of 

 each feather : the tail deep chocolate ; bafe of the feathers yel- 

 lowiih white ; the end of each of a deeper chocolate than the red' 

 of the feather; the very tip and the fhafts of a dirty white : the 

 wings and tail nearly of equal lengths : the legs are feathered to 

 the toes ; the laft are of a greeniih yellow : claws black, large, 

 and hooked. , " 



The above is defcribed from a fpecimen in ray own collection. 

 It feems a larger bird than that from which INIr. Fennant took his 



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